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Kyunghee University

Kyung Hee University
경희대학교
Kyung Hee University Seal.png
Motto Democratization of School, Ideas, and Living
Toward a New Civilization
A Civilized World
Type Private
Established 1949
President Cho In-Won
Academic staff
2,976 (2011)
Students 31,453 (2011)
Undergraduates 24,569 (2011)
Postgraduates 6,884 (2011)
1,605 (2012)
Location Seoul, South Korea
Campus Urban
245 acres (99 ha) (Seoul campus)
510 acres (210 ha) (Global campus)
12 acres (4.9 ha) (Gwangneung campus)
Colors Crimson      
Nickname Lion with Graceful Smile
Mascot Lion
Website www.kyunghee.edu
While retaining the founding principles of the original seal, the new design concept represents Kyung Hee's future ideal of contributing to the creation of a better global community by establishing new common values. The image of the official seal was taken from the embossed carvings placed in the Central Library of the Global Campus and the lobby of the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies and its imprint will be used on official internationally recognized documents and international events.
Kyung Hee University
Hangul
Hanja
Revised Romanization Gyeonghui Daehakgyo
McCune–Reischauer Kyŏnghŭi Taehakkyo

Kyung Hee University is a private, research university encompassing an educational system from kindergarten to graduate school with campuses in Seoul, Suwon, and Gwangneung (on the outskirts of Namyangju city), South Korea. Kyung Hee has 24 colleges, 71 departments and majors, 65 master's and 63 doctorate programs, 18 professional and special graduate schools, and 43 auxiliary research institutions. The university counts Slavoj Žižek, Jason Barker and Emanuel Pastreich among its international professors.

The university celebrated its sixtieth anniversary in 2009. In 1993 Kyung Hee received the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education. In 2006, Kyung Hee and the University of Pennsylvania initiated the Penn-Kyung Hee Collaborative Summer Program and two years later a formal Global Collaborative with Peking, Ritsumeikan, and Moscow State universities; the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs; and the Conference of NGOs (CoNGO). Kyung Hee's interdisciplinary bio-medical cluster maintains one of the world's leading research programs for the study of oriental medicine and its application to contemporary medical treatment in tandem with Western approaches, including the world's first successful drug-free acupunctural anesthesia demonstration in 1972. As of 2011 Kyung Hee University maintains sister relationships with 402 universities in 68 countries.

Kyung Hee was founded in 1949 by Dr. Young Seek Choue, whose founding philosophy was "Toward a New Civilization." The university hosted the 1968 conference of the International Association of University Presidents, first proposed in 1981 the UN International Day of Peace, organized the 1999 Seoul International Conference of NGOs, held the 2009 World Civic Forum, ran the 2011 UNAI-Kyung Hee International Symposium, and has spearheaded the Global Common Society movement.


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